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At the founding meeting of the John Birch Society Robert Welch warned, “[There is a plan] to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty ... to various international organizations...." The Society has always opposed the surrender of American sovereignty to any international organization, such as the United Nations, or the emerging North American Union. |
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American Independence & Sovereignty
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I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands....
The world has always had its idealists. Frequently enough, they have dreamt of erecting a paradise on Earth where the squabbles of nations, the ravings of dictators, and the recurring banes of famine and disease would be made relics of the past in a unified world ruled by a single globe-spanning government.